Richard Pipes, the Frank B Baird, Jr Professor of History, Emeritus, at Harvard University, born July 11, 1923, died this morning, May 17, in the Boston area.

Born in Poland, Professor Pipes arrived in the United States as a refugee from the Nazis in 1940. He served in U.S. Army Air Corps, where he learned Russian, and entered Harvard as a graduate student in 1946, staying at the university until his retirement in 1996. His speciality was imperial Russian history and the Russian...

We are very proud to say that two members of the department have been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships: Joyce Chaplin, in the category of History of Science, Technology, and Economics, and Jane Kamensky, in General Non-fiction.